On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > Rename nfsd specific MAY_* flags to NFSD_MAY_* to make it clear, that > > > these are not used outside nfsd, and to avoid namespace conflicts with > > > the VFS. > > > > But they _are_ in the same namespace as the VFS ones. This needs to be > > sorted out by real by understanding what's going on here and either > > separating this flags out and passing them in a separate argument, or > > moving them to include/linux/fs.h so it's obvious for anyone adding new > > flags that they must not collide. > > Neither I think. What's going on is that nfsd has a private set of > permission flags, and a private permission checking function, which > incidentally calls the vfs' permission checking function. > > Does it hurt to share the three base MAY_ flags for this purpose? I > don't think it does, but I'm interested in the nfsd maintainers' > opinions. This isn't something I've ever had a reason to care about. What are you trying to fix exactly? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
